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Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 22, November 2025.ABSTRACT Evolutionary transitions to carnivory represent profound shifts in feeding mode that are often accompanied by widespread changes in organismal function, behaviour and ecology. Such transitions have evolved numerous times among animals, and predator–prey interactions have been major drivers of animal evolution.
Joseph M. Mack, Alexandra E. Bely
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Pest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 10, Page 6820-6831, October 2025.The larval food consumption, growth, and pectinase activity without symbiotic bacteria are suppressed in Zeugodacus cucurbitae. We isolated four strains of Klebsiella spp. that can participate in pectinolytic metabolism from feeding wounds. Reintroducing them to sterile eggs breaks the developmental constraints caused by the lack of symbiotic bacteria.
Guangmei Chen +9 more
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Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Volume 173, Issue 7, Page 708-723, July 2025.We investigated the molecular basis of host switching by the phytophagous West Indian fruit fly (A. obliqua). Third‐instar larvae showed differential gene expression according to host plants: red mombin, mango, and carambola. The main gene categories differentially expressed were digestion, detoxification, and gene regulators.
Sandra M. Velasco‐Cuervo +5 more
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Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Volume 173, Issue 6, Page 522-531, June 2025.Dicyphus hesperus, a zoophytophagous predator, effectively controls Bemisia tabaci in tomato greenhouses. Highly zoophagous lines rapidly reduced whitefly populations without causing significant damage to tomatoes, whereas lowly zoophagous lines were equally efficient over time but caused more damage.
François Dumont +3 more
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Sensitivity analysis, molecular systematics and natural history evolution of Scathophagidae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha: Calyptratae) [PDF]
, 2007 The 60 000 described species of Cyclorrhapha are characterized by an unusual diversity in larval life-history traits, which range from saprophagy over phytophagy to parasitism and predation.
Meier, R. +11 more
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Habitat-conditioned feeding behaviour in Barbitistes constrictus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)
Open Life Sciences, 2014 Some insect herbivores can regulate their nourishment intake by different feeding behaviour. This mechanism allows them to persist with utilising different food resources according to the composition of the vegetation within their habitats.
Kaňuch Peter +2 more
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Insects, 2020 Bacterial symbionts in arthropods are common, vary in their effects, and can dramatically influence the outcome of biological control efforts. Macrolophus pygmaeus (Heteroptera: Miridae), a key component of biological control programs, is mainly ...
Maria Dally +5 more
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, 1985 Switches between zoophagy, phytophagy and detritivory of Sarotherodon mossambicus (Peters) populations in twelve man‐made Sri Lankan ...
P Maitipe (13617565) +1 more
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Dietary information for a group of taxa of the families Mormoopidae and Phyllostomidae.
, 2013 Trophic specialisation: 1 = specialist, 2 = generalist. Specialisation for phytophagy, nectarivory, frugivory or animalivory: 1 = non-, 2 = complementary, 3 = predominantly, 4 = strictly.
José J. Flores-Martínez (3251214) +7 more
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Acta Scientiarum. Agronomy, 2011 The effect of plant feeding on biological aspects of Podisus nigrispinus (Dallas) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) was evaluated. Nymphs and adults of this predator were fed with Tenebrio molitor L. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) pupae on Eucalyptus urophylla plants in the field or only with pupae of this prey in the laboratory.
Holtz, Anderson Mathias +5 more
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